Daily Update

The NY Post editorial in today’s paper ends with this sentence, “If Cuomo intends to live up to his ‘fiscal conservative’ talk, it’s time to put his veto pen to work.” The problem is that Governor Cuomo has never really lived up to his “fiscal conservative” talk and we doubt he will veto all 12 bills. His excuse will be they were “bipartisan” bills.

Beware: It will cost you your hard-earned money if they succeed and open the door to fraud. Reform push combines Democratic interests, nonpartisan charities. John Kaehny, the executive director of Reinvent Albany says in the article that, “We view these measures as part of our core work to reduce the influence of money on politics. …” what he left out was to have citizens support candidates they would not normally support, to increase the influence of unions and let unscrupulous candidates perpetrate fraud. The fact that not-for-profits are involved with this issue, should be enough to understand that campaign finance is all about control.